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will gpt-3 take your job? techcabal
Or it may not have.
The model is trained with 499 billion tokens (a unit of text or punctuation in natural language processing) and has 175 billion parameters (learned patterns from the training dataset).
The wealth of information it has to pull from is gigantic and this is why it is able to, with some prompting, produce a diverse range of material from poems to news articles to lines of code with astonishing coherence.Friday, September 25, 2020
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great cheap accessories for all apple watch models
Don''t show this again Thanks to easy to swap bands, the Apple Watch can quickly alter both its look and its functionality.
How absurd is that? Here are some examples of Apple Watch bands you can get for less in some cases way less.
A Milanese loop is a metal mesh band with a magnetic closure.Friday, September 25, 2020
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redmi 9 review ndtv gadgets 360
There''s been a sudden surge of budget phone launches in the past few months; the Redmi 9 from Xiaomi being one of them.
This recent offering is priced under Rs. The Redmi 9 is fairly tall and wide, which is something I immediately noticed when trying to use it with one hand.
Thankfully, it doesn''t feel too thick or heavy even though it measures around 9mm and weighs 194g.Friday, September 25, 2020
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Roland Garros 2020: Women's singles draw analysis, preview and predictions
There will be no 'bubble' in Paris the way there was in New York, but that doesn''t mean the City of Lights isn''t being haunted by the shadow of COVID 19.
Just a couple of days ago, six players from the qualifiers were withdrawn from the tournament over coronavirus concerns and one of them plans to sue.
We don''t know whether there will be 5000 spectators allowed into the grounds everyday, or 1000, or none at all.Friday, September 25, 2020
#Womens #analysis #preview #draw #Garros
Technology
inside the twitter hack—and what happened next wired
July 15 was, at first, just another day for Parag Agrawal, the chief technology officer of Twitter.
Everything seemed normal on the service: T Pain s fans were defending him in a spat with Travis Scott; people were upset that the London Underground had removed artwork by Banksy.
Agrawal set up in his home office in the Bay Area, in a room that he shares with his young son.Friday, September 25, 2020
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go ahead, try to sneak bad words past ai filters—for research wired
Facebook s artificial intelligence researchers have a plan to make algorithms smarter by exposing them to human cunning.
Thursday, Facebook s AI lab launched a project called Dynabench that creates a kind of gladiatorial arena in which humans try to trip up AI systems.
Challenges include crafting sentences that cause a sentiment scoring system to misfire, reading a comment as negative when it is actually positive, for example.Friday, September 25, 2020
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how the pandemic transformed this songbird’s call wired
When the cat s away the mice will play, or so the saying goes.
But what happens when humanity s away, locked inside to slow the Covid 19 pandemic? It turns out that birds will play a sexier song, that is.
Writing today in the journal Science, researchers report that male white crowned sparrows around the San Francisco Bay Area exploited the sudden drop in anthropogenic noise when the region went on strict lockdown in April and May.Friday, September 25, 2020
#How #Pandemic #WIRED #This #Transformed
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we need to talk about talking about qanon wired
So far, news coverage has focused on describing the phenomenon, debunking its most outrageous claims, and discussing its real world consequences.
The problem is, even after all the explainers, debunks, and stakes laying, QAnon hasn t receded in popularity it s exploded.
Not talking about it is no longer an option, so we need to find a way to talk about it better.Friday, September 25, 2020
Technology
facebook busts russian disinfo networks as us election looms wired
Facebook announced on Thursday that it has taken down three "coordinated inauthentic behavior " networks promoting disinformation that included nearly 300 Facebook and Instagram accounts, along with dozens of Facebook Pages and Groups.
While the efforts were seemingly run independently, and were focused primarily outside of the US, each has ties to Russian intelligence and they collectively provide a sobering echo of the social media assault that roiled the 2016 election.
The networks Facebook tackled dated back at least three years, but most had few followers at the time they were caught.Friday, September 25, 2020
#Election #Facebook #Looms #Disinfo #US #Networks
Lifestyle
the ring always home cam flies around inside your house wired
There s the consideration of whether the gadget fits into your life right now, at a time when our needs have changed considerably.
There s also the fact that most of the products launching this year were dreamt up in 2019 or earlier.
Back then, tech companies had a different vision of the future in mind, or at least different ideas of what the lifestyle images in their 2020 product marketing kits would look like.Friday, September 25, 2020
Technology
a tip from a kid helped uncover a slew of scam apps wired
This story originally appeared on Ars Technica, a trusted source for technology news, tech policy analysis, reviews, and more.
Ars is owned by WIRED 's parent company, Cond Nast.
Posing as apps for entertainment, wallpaper images, or music downloads, some of the titles served intrusive ads even when an app wasn t active.Friday, September 25, 2020
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everything amazon just announced—like that crazy home drone wired
Amazon held a media event in its hometown of Seattle on Thursday morning.
Just like nearly every other consumer tech announcement this year, Amazon s extravaganza was a virtual affair, with company executives speaking over a livestream instead of to a room full of reporters. The company unleashed a flood of hardware in about an hour, including new Alexa devices, new Echo speakers devices, and some very curious new Ring devices.
We 've rounded up the highlights for you below.Friday, September 25, 2020
Technology
alexa now has its own questions for you wired
When Amazon released the Echo smart speaker in 2014, people marveled at the convenience of voice controlled computing.
But the novelty has worn off, and today they are more likely to grumble about how often Alexa gets confused.
Now, Amazon has a plan to make Alexa smarter with you as the teacher.Friday, September 25, 2020
chatbot takes down troll in &"algorithm&" music video for makeup -- vanity set stash magazine
Posted on Thursday, September 24, 2020 middot; Leave a Comment Directors Saman Kesh and Justin Daashuur Hopkins tap into all the pent up schadenfreude you feel for internet trolls in this breakout music video for Makeup amp; Vanity Set (aka Nashville electronic producer Matthew Pusti).
The video was produced in lockdown with LA filmmaker Alan Mykitta handling the heavy lifting of onscreen UI design and animation.
So we channeled our boredom and anger towards creating something provoking but hopefully enlightening.Friday, September 25, 2020
#Set #Chatbot # #MAGAZINE #Video #Music #Makeup
Inside Dharini Bhaskar’s debut These, Our Bodies, Possessed by Light, longlisted for the JCB Prize for Literature 2020 - Art-and-culture News , Firstpost
Dharini Bhaskar s early research for her JCB Prize longlisted debut novel These, Our Bodies, Possessed by Light began as a student of English literature, when writing the book wasn t even a thought.
In reading 20th century literature and the family saga in modern fiction, she found not just a theoretical framework that she could build upon, but was also exposed to the type of literature that has deeply shaped her writing life.
More than anything else, it made me aware of the contradictions inherent in this unit we call a family a unit that is deeply conservative yet home to firebrand participants; that is the fount of our most enduring pleasures and the deepest of our agonies, she tells Firstpost.Friday, September 25, 2020
#Light #Bodies #Artandculture # #2020 #Dharini #JCB
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trade remedies needed for african free trade implementation - tola onayemi nairametrics
This was disclosed by Tola Onayemi, Head, Trade Remedies Unit National office for Trade Negotiations on Thursday at the AfCFTA Sensitization Seminar organized by the National Action Committee of the implementation of the agreement.
Explore the Nairametrics Research Website for Economic and Financial Data Mr.
Onayemi said Trade remedies would protect the market from getting flooded by subsidized goods of foreign companies which would be sold below competitive prices for Nigerian producers. Trade remedies is not protectionism, it s protection against unfair trade practices, he said.Friday, September 25, 2020
#implementation #remedies #free #needed #African #Tola
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ThisSongIsSick Presents: The Remedy Vol. 023 Ft. Petit Biscuit - This Song Is Sick
We got a lot of love for Petit Biscuit.
Watching him blossom into the producer that gave us 2017 's Presence has been a treat, and he continues to deliver today.
He 's absolutely one of our favorite French artists and we 're very proud to feature his curation talents for Vol.Friday, September 25, 2020
#Ft #Petit #023 #Biscuit #ThisSongIsSick #Sick #Is #This
Technology
Odisha: BJP, Congress Demand Rollback of Power Tariff Hike
Both the parties criticised the state government for increasing the power tariff across categories, barring consumers of the agriculture sector and BPL families, during the COVID 19 pandemic.
Calling the government 's decision as "unfortunate ", Congress MLA SS.
Saluja said the party will raise the issue in the upcoming monsoon session of the assembly which will commence from September 29, 2020.Friday, September 25, 2020
